Just about every single day someone will take the time to call my voice answering machine or to write an e-mail in which they take the opportunity to call me some awful, unprintable, often-profane name.

Just about every single day someone will take the time to call my voice answering machine or to write an e-mail in which they take the opportunity to call me some awful, unprintable, often-profane name.

Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86.

Clay Felker, the magazine mogul who revolutionized the city magazine genre as founding editor of New York, died Tuesday. He was 82.New York magazine, filled with gossip on the city's social scene, inside knowledge of its business and politics, and endless "best of" lists, was relentlessly imitated following its creation in 1968.

Willie Worsley will feel that rush of pride rising when he turns on the TV. Three black head coaches in the NFL playoffs. Three black quarterbacks on an NFL contender based south of the Mason-Dixon line. One black quarterback leading the college football juggernaut from Texas, which last won an undisputed national title with an all-white team. "I'll get real emotional inside," Worsley said.